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Eliminate Brain Freeze!Five Fabulous Tips to Overcome the Fear of
Public Speaking
Your business and leadership ability is being judged when you speak
What are your conversations and presentations saying about you?
Confident, capable, expert leader…or something else ?
Because You are What You Say!
Confident Conversations and Powerful Presentations
Are A Core Competency for
Business Leaders and Experts
Brain Freeze is that something that takes over your body at the most inopportune time. It is a physiological body response due to perceived stress.
It doesn’t just happen on a stage. It can happen◦ In a conversation with the big boss,◦ In an important meeting, ◦ On stage in front of the whole company.
Brain Freeze… More than just Stage Fright
A few butterflies are good. They prevent you from being flat
Excessive nerves, shallow breathing, red neck and jittery hands steal your credibility!
Brain Freeze…More than Butterflies
No tricks or gimmicks
Tricks and gimmick like picturing the audience in their underwear is a band aid not a cure.
You must identify the source of the fear and ‘perceived threat’ that is causing you to be afraid
Causes and Cures
What is the Root Cause of your fear of speaking in front of a group that causes your mind to go blank and your jitters?
WHY the Fear
Fear of looking bad- if you can’t answer tough questions
Fear of embarrassment – if your mind goes blank
Fear of not being liked (respected, thought highly of) if someone disagrees with you
Fear of having what you say judged or criticized
What is so scary – for many people it is an unconscious fear
Four fastcoaching tips that you can immediately put to work to reframe
your fear
Tip 1. Audience The word audience
triggers your nerves
When you are listening to a speaker do you think of yourself as the audience? Most people don’t
1. I’m not an audience. I’m just a guy asking a question!
2. Remind yourself you are speaking to a room full of individuals – not an audience.
Audience Reframe
1. You cannot be expected to answer every conceivable question. It is how you handle the questions.
2. Confidently respond, possibly offering to get them the answer or talk to them off line if the question is inappropriate
Tip 2. Tough Questions
1. You are there to serve. 2. It is all about the audience – not all
about you the speaker.3. When you take the focus off of you
and turn it to the audience you have a lot less to be nervous about.
Tip 3: It’s not about YOU
1. Your fears are coming from a story you are telling yourself in your head. Change your story.
2. Change the assumptions you are making about not being good at public speaking – make the opposite assumption
Tip 4. Write a New Story
You can’t learn to swim by reading a book. You have to jump in the pool.
The best way to become a more confident speaker is to speak.
Speaking is like swimming…
Sound like leaders Are perceived as experts Connect with the audience Inspire and motivate others to take action Have more influence, impact and are more
persuasive Increase their chances of landing a job or
getting a promotion
More confident and relaxed speakers…
